Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog

Re:Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog by evgen on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:10PM (#3072098)

Both GSM & CDMA. This is going to be one of the huge factors for the 4S & 5. If I can now play Verizon, Sprint, & AT&T off against each other then this may be a big, big win for US consumers.

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Re:Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog by alexg0 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:20PM (#3072147)

Think Sprint may still be able to sell that big chunk of phones they committed themselves to. I can definitely see going back to Sprint, if they get reasonable roaming deals, particularly on international data.

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Re:Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog by pflats on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:15PM (#3072127)

This also means that Verizon's iPhones lose one of their biggest downsides, that whole worldwide compatability thing.

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Re:Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog by evgen on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:18PM (#3072137)

Yeah. I wonder how things like carrier lock are going to work on this new model. If I have Verizon service in the US and go to Europe can I drop in a local SIM card and use that? If so what is to prevent me from using that same feature when I am back in the US? Hmmmm....

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Re:Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog by mahyarm on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:36PM (#3072203)

Verizon's other world phones (Like the Droid 2 World) have a 'US only lock'. It will lock out USA SIM cards, but it otherwise unlocked everywhere else. It's also subsidized. I think that is a very fair way to do it.

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Re:Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog by seanalltogether on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:23PM (#3072161)

I would guess the world phones are sold unsubsidized.

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